Progressive Party of Ecuador

The Progressive Party was a conservative-liberal political party in Ecuador that was founded in 1883. The party was led by the liberal Catholic politician Antonio Flores Jijon, and the party held a "Third Way" sort of tendency that strayed from both liberalism and conservatism; the party was closer to a moderate conservative party than to a liberal party due to its classical liberal economic views being met with conservative social and foreign policy views. The party opposed authoritarianism in favor of republicanism and abolished church tithes, and it cooperated closely with the related Republican Union of Ecuador, which was slightly more liberal in its views. The party was behind the 1895 liberal revolution, but the traditional liberals regained power after the revolution, causing the "progressive" movement to disintegrate, with its members joining either the conservative or liberal parties.